The day's news in pictures: March 20 2014

The day’s biggest stories from the UK and around the world in pictures

Screengrab taken from the @grantshapps Twitter feed of a message that the Conservative chairman Grant Shapps posted. The Tories faced a backlash after an online Budget advert hailed the bingo and beer tax breaks as "helping hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy"

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David Cameron failed to properly understand the Budget as he believed it handed an old school chum named “Bingo” tax cuts, Ed Balls has said.

The shadow chancellor poked fun at the Prime Minister and Chancellor George Osborne as he criticised the Budget for failing to help people struggling with the day-to-day cost of living.

Mr Balls also called to “free the Cable One” after Business Secretary Vince Cable said in an interview that he had become “much more enslaved” in Government.

An air search in the southern Indian Ocean for possible objects from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane described as the “best lead” so far has ended for the day without success.

The search will resume in the morning, Australian rescue officials said.

The four planes were checking to see if two large objects spotted in satellite imagery bobbing in the remote ocean were debris from Fight 370 that disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board.